This is more of a response to the 411 Top 100 than anything else, as I didn't realize this album was actually THAT highly rated. #15. Really?
The 15th single greatest record of all-time is by Oasis? Let's be real here for a minute. Sure, the album has three fantastic singles that will probably be listened to on FM channels until we're all off of this planet, but after that, what are we looking at?
A lot of Beatles-aping, to be certain, while attempting to cross-breed wherever it was Nirvana left off with British acoustic rock that is largely boring and uninspired. This album presents nothing original whatsoever in terms of structure, phrasing, lyrics, anything, and is largely boring outside of the three singles. Not only that, but it presented absolutely no progression from their first record, "Definitely Maybe", and in fact, they STILL haven't shown any progression since then.
Do you ever wonder why "Be Here Now" was such a commercial failure, and every record since has failed to capture the magic of "What's the Story…"? Because "What's the Story…" is three songs and a lot of the "skip" button. That's why.
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